Neal Pollack
By Neal Pollack
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Culture Learning To Be Good From The Ethics Master
Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything By Randy Cohen Chronicle Books, 320 pages, $24.95 I’ve been assigned to write a review of “Be Good: How To Navigate the Ethics of Everything,” a compilation of columns by former New York Times “Ethicist” Randy Cohen. While I wouldn’t say I’m friends with Cohen —…
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Israel News ‘Bruno’: An Equal-Opportunity Offender
In the department of “legal actions highly unlikely to succeed,” an ex-member of the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade is suing Sacha Baron Cohen and Universal Pictures in U.S. Federal Court for $110 million, alleging libel and slander. Playing the flamingly gay Austrian celebra-whore title character in this summer’s movie “Bruno,” Baron Cohen mocked Ayman Abu…
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